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ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Page. 

 Norwood, George 82, 278 



Number of eggs in immature ovaries .... 96 



O. 



Object of the memoir 1 



Oceau temperatures 52 



Ocean trout 10, 138 



Oceanic sharks C>9 



Oceanic sojourn 66 



Oil, a comparison of the yield of, of the 



whale and other fisheries 190 



Oil business in Maine, inception of 164 



Oil, exports of 503 



Oil factories, locations of the 165 



Oil factory, cost of an 174 



Oil, grades of l^"-^ 



Oil, the claims of Maine to discovery of 



menhaden 161 



Oil, menhaden, use of 191 



Oil yiehl in dififerect localities 183 



Oil yield of northern fish 180 



Oil yield of southern fish 183 



Oil manufacture, history of 161, 513 



Oil manufacture,'method3 of 169 



Oil manufacture, principles involved in. .. 169 



Oil manufacture, statistics of 190 



Oil; number of gallons produced in Maine 186 



Old-wife 15 



Olin, Washington 393 



Oliver, Washington 80,271 



Olmstead, Frederick Law 140 



Oniscus prasgnstator 17, 102 



Orcynus alliteratus 69 



Orcynus thyuuus 69 



Osier, Samuel 213 



Osmerus mordax 70 



Otis, James E 168,175,183,189,296 



Ova of menhaden 97 



Owens, A. A 273,453 



Oysters 2,95 



P. 



Pacific coast, menhaden on 37 



Pacific Guano Company 106,169,227,487 



Page, Captain 18 



Page!, Dr 247 



Parasites of the menhaden 101 



Paruell, Mr 289 



Parson s, Joseph D 87, 97, 116, 272, 296, 442 



Pauhagen 11 



Payne, Benjamin, & Co 167,446 



Payne, G.H 167,296,448 



Pelamys sarda 69, 100 



Pemaquid Oil Works 164, 165, 185, 186, 187, 188, 



296, 297, 371, 372, 402 



Perley,M. H 64,274 



Perrin, Edwin A 84 



Pettingell, C. C 277 



Pettingell, Capt. Charles C 82 



Pettingell, Capt. Moses 101,136,149 



Pettit, M 212,213,226 



Pew, Charles H 278 



Phill ips, Barnet 4, 75, 135, 138, 273 



PhiUips, Eben B . .104, 108, 115, 162, 165, 179, 181, 271, 

 273, 376, 387, 401 



Page. 



Phosphate oflime 191 



Phy cis chuss 69 



Pierce, Albion K 278 



Pierce, Erskine 166, 175, 181, 188, 296 



Pierce,F.F 296,358 



Plant-food, essential ingredients of 231 



Plant nutrition, chemistry of 230 



Plumer, George W 82,278 



Poggie n 



Pogy 7,10,37,49,159 



Poisson blanc 68 



Poisson de fond 68 



Poisson de roche 68 



Poisson forain 68 



Poisson uomade 68 



Pollachius carbonarius 69, 106 



Pollock 69,106 



Pomatomiis saltatrix 1, 41,70, 106 



Pomolobus mediooris 70 



Pomolobus pseudoharengus 13, 14, 70 



Pompano 70 



Pond, J. G 82 



Pookagan 11 



Popular names 7, 9 



Porgy 11 



Porgv chum 141 



Possibilities of future oil manufacture 226 



Potter, Capt. William H 76,85,116,272,428 



Pound-fishermen 110 



Practical conclusions 249 



Prejudices and superstitions 6 



Preston, Jonathan, & Co 444,448 



Price, Capt. F. Frank 167, 168, 297, 444, 440, 448 



Prices current of menhaden oU 193,299,300, 



301, 302, 303 



Prices of menhaden, different seasons 178 



Prices proportionate to amount of oil con- 

 tained in fish ISO 



Proctor, Joseph 150 



Pryer, Jasper . 165, 167, 168, 175, 187, 273, 296, 364, 503 



Purse-boat 126 



Purse-seine 117,118,124 



Q- 



Quiunipiac Fertilizer Company. . .160, 169, 175, 176, 



183, 188, 227, 296, 297, 428, 432, 493 



Quiambog Oil Company 167, 428, 432 



Race, Edward E 



Radde, Mr 



Kaflnesque, C. S 



Range of menhaden, oceanic limits of 



Range of allied species 



Range, preferred, of temperature 



Range, southern limits of 



Ray nor, J. Norrison 1 68, 273, 



Raynor, W. C 



Rays 



Rease, Captain 



Reed, H. W 



Refining, processes employed in 



Relation of the menhaden fishery to the 



fishermen and maritime villages • 



Relative values of different fertilizers 



81 



217 



276 



36 



37 



55 



36 



296, 443 



168, 296 



69 



83 



273 



170 



131 

 244 



